{"id":30105,"date":"2012-05-24T09:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30105"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:58:25","slug":"smoke-and-mirrors-at-the-af-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30105","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and Mirrors at the AF Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military.com and Associated Press<\/a> report on the president’s speech to graduates at the Air Force Academy yesterday and it’s a bunch of unadulterated crap, piled high and deep. He welcomes them into a world without war and an appreciative and respectful community of nations thanks to his administration.<\/p>\n

Obama told the cadets that they are the first class in nearly a decade to graduate into a world that has no Osama bin Laden, no war in Iraq and no questions about when the war in Afghanistan will end.<\/p>\n

The president said a disappearing “dark cloud of war” will mean a less strained and better prepared military, and more use of other U.S. power – diplomatic, economic and humanitarian.<\/p>\n

“Even as we’ve done the work of ending these wars, we’ve laid the foundation for a new era of American leadership,” Obama said. “And now, cadets, we have to build on it. Let’s start by putting aside the tired notion that says our influence has waned, that America is in decline. We’ve heard that talk before.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup, war is ended, just because we choose not to admit that there are people trying to kill us by the buckets full of blood. We’re still the leader of the free world just because we say so, even though we haven’t done anything successful in the past four years to lead anyone towards anything constructive. And just because this administration refuses to admit that there have been real terrorist attacks between our shores, that means they haven’t happened. Just because an old intelligence estimate says that Iran isn’t building nuclear weapons, well, they aren’t.<\/p>\n

Mostly, when talk started that “America is in decline” we elected leaders who stopped that process from happening. I can’t get out of mind his speech to the American Legion Convention last September when he told the congregation that he wouldn’t balance the budget on the backs of veterans while his administration was planning to do just that. His words never match reality, just how you should perceive his reality.<\/p>\n

But, then I’m probably just a racist. And mad enough to spit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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